Crash cinema and the politics of speed and stasis

Argues that representations of the car crash in film genres from slapstick comedies to industrial-safety movies parallels the collision of film and other media.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Beckman, Karen Redrobe, 1971- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press 2010.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Jerky nearness" : spectatorship, mobility, and collision in early cinema
  • Car wreckers and home lovers : the automobile in silent slapstick
  • Doing death over : industrial-safety films, accidental-motion studies, and the involuntary crash test dummy
  • Disaster time, the Kennedy assassination, and Andy Warhol's Since (1966/2002)
  • Film falls apart : Crash, Semen, and Pop
  • Crash aesthetics : Amores perros and the dream of cinematic mobility
  • The afterlife of Weekend, or, the university found on a scrapheap.